(26-06-2016 01:18 PM)Momsurroundedbyboys Wrote: Early each summer the baby squirrels (or as I call them tree rats) come out.

I've noticed most are brown, but occasionally there's a very light gray or black baby squirrel around. Neither of those seem to survive long. Yesterday I saw a very light gray squirrel alone romping about. That's also odd since they're usually out in groups...

Of course I've already flattened three under the tires of my car, but they were all the common brown type...

Many of the tree rats around here are black. I think they're just genetically adapting their camouflage to fit the demographics of their environment.

(26-06-2016 01:18 PM)Momsurroundedbyboys Wrote: Early each summer the baby squirrels (or as I call them tree rats) come out.

I've noticed most are brown, but occasionally there's a very light gray or black baby squirrel around. Neither of those seem to survive long. Yesterday I saw a very light gray squirrel alone romping about. That's also odd since they're usually out in groups...

Of course I've already flattened three under the tires of my car, but they were all the common brown type...

Many of the tree rats around here are black. I think they're just genetically adapting their camouflage to fit the demographics of their environment.

The black ones here never last. You can see them too easily in tall brown grasses and in the trees.

But...the brown ones play with the black one but the light gray one was left all alone.

Oh and I think the light gray one was picked off by a hawk.

That made me kinda sad.

But as if to knock me down, reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch, cut me into little pieces

That those moms of little beauty pageant girls are a special kind of evil.

"If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.
The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination."
- Paul Dirac

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That my uncle was apparently a really bad student in his Catholic high school. (He guessed he was Catholic when he married my aunt, because the church sent him a calendar each year, but that's another story.) He went to his 50th reunion and spotted one of the nuns he had as a teacher. He went to introduce himself and she said, "I remember you [uncle's name], you were such a bad boy." For a now 93 year old nun to remember how much she hated him, he really must not have exaggerated being a bad kid there. For his part he said she was a bitch then and still is 50 years later.

(26-06-2016 03:49 PM)Shai Hulud Wrote: That my uncle was apparently a really bad student in his Catholic high school. (He guessed he was Catholic when he married my aunt, because the church sent him a calendar each year, but that's another story.) He went to his 50th reunion and spotted one of the nuns he had as a teacher. He went to introduce himself and she said, "I remember you [uncle's name], you were such a bad boy." For a now 93 year old nun to remember how much she hated him, he really must not have exaggerated being a bad kid there. For his part he said she was a bitch then and still is 50 years later.

That made me laugh.

But as if to knock me down, reality came around
And without so much as a mere touch, cut me into little pieces